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Continental buyers put in sterling performance

Cheap sterling can help bring in the foreign buyers – but only if auctioneers can deliver the right goods. These were much in evidence at Chorley’s (20% buyer’s premium) sale at Prinknash Abbey on September 13-14.

Topping the two-day Gloucestershire sale was a fine Maltese commode with a family provenance going back 150 years.

Illustrated and described on the news pages of last week’s ATG (No 2311), this fine example of Mediterranean marquetry tripled the estimate, going at £28,000 to a Maltese dealer buying for his own collection.

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